Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Education

  
  • EDU 4220 - Differentiation & Instruction

    Credits: 2
    This course will review current practices in differentiated instruction for children at all ability levels. The major areas to be covered in this course will include the characteristics and needs of typically developing children and those with communication problems, visual and hearing impairments, physical and health-related challenges, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, gifted and talented attributes, and emotional and behavioral disorders.
  
  • EDU 4221 - Positive Learning Environments and Behavior Interventions

    Credits: 2
    This course emphasizes the importance of creating and maintaining a safe and collaborative learning environment for all students. Preservice teachers gain knowledge and skills to employ a variety of strategies to assist students in developing social and emotional self-regulation skills and responsible decision making. The course also focuses on valuing diversity and motivation for students to take academic risks and challenges and establish and maintain effective routines and procedures that promote positive student behavior.
  
  • EDU 4320 - Teaching Social Studies

    Credits: 2
    The course content will address various aspects of social studies education such as global awareness, cultural diversity, the development of geography skills and the planning and implementation of social studies units. The needs of bilingual, ELL and special needs students in these curriculum areas will be studied. In each area there will be a focus on the methodology, materials and theoretical foundations for the specific curriculum scope and sequence. Students will be required to develop instructional folders for each curriculum area. EDU 4320 must be taken in the same semester as EDU 4340 - Children’s Literature .
  
  • EDU 4340 - Children’s Literature

    Credits: 2
    This course addresses children’s and young adult literature and literary techniques, as well as basic principles and concepts in the teaching of visual and performing arts to children. Included are genre characteristics and identification, recognition of quality literature, and artistic elements of illustration. Students will apply essential skills unique to teaching each art form - dance, music, theatre, visual arts - to children and the integration of these into other disciplines. EDU 4340 must be taken the same semester as EDU 4320 .
  
  • EDU 4500 - Language Acquisition and Literacy Development

    Credits: 4
    This course will focus on acquisition of key language components, namely phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Students will gain an appreciation for the phases of language development and will understand the reasons for dysfunction and its effect on overall school achievement. There will be a thorough examination of mild to moderate language disability, its causes, and successful interventions strategies. In addition to language acquisition, we will also examine the design and modification of literacy curriculum and instructional materials, as well as general education classroom environments, for students with moderate disabilities.  
    Prerequisite(s): EDU 2410  
  
  • EDU 4582 - Sheltered English Instruction

    Credits: 4
    This course will assist teachers in preparing to effectively design content instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) to achieve academic success as they prepare for their futures in the 21st century global economy. Effective research-based strategies will be practiced and analyzed, and students will have opportunities for feedback and reflection. Upon successful completion of this course, participating teachers will receive Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) endorsement. An overall course grade of C or better is required to be eligible for the SEI Teacher Endorsement. All core academic teachers responsible for the education of one or more English Language Learners in public schools are required to earn SEI Teacher Endorsement.
    Prerequisite(s): Faculty consent required.
  
  • EDU 4683 - Gender and Education

    Credits: 4
    How does gender affect our experiences with education? What educational environments support the growth and development of students of all genders? What difference does gender make with respect to teaching and learning, and both inside and outside of the classroom engagement? These questions are central to understanding the role that gender plays in education. This course will examine educational theory, practice, and policy through the lens of gender identity and equity across the K-16 spectrum, and will focus on development of gender-inclusive environments. This class is cross-listed in Women’s and Gender Studies for both graduates and advanced undergraduates.
  
  • EDU 4800 - Directed Study

    Credits: 4
    In lieu of a formal course, qualified upper class students may, with the approval of the chair, substitute an intensive program of reading under the direction of a member of the department.
  
  • EDU 4810 - Directed Research

    Credits: 4
    In lieu of a formal course, a student may, with the approval of the chair, pursue an intensive program of research under the direction of a member of the department.
  
  • EDU 4900 - Practicum - Moderate Disabilities

    Credits: 12
    The culminating experience for the teacher preparation program is a 450 hour field based practicum and co-requisite seminar.  During the practicum, teacher candidates (TC) must successfully complete the Candidate Assessment of Performance process (CAP) in order to complete the teacher preparation program.  The CAP assesses a TC’s readiness in relations to the Professional Standards for Teachers (PSTs). CAP parallels the Massachusetts Educator Evaluation system in order to better prepare TCs and ensure that they are ready to be effective on day one. It measures the TC’s practice across a range of key indicators as outlined in the Guidelines for the Professional Standards for Teacher and supports them in improving their practice based on the results.  Teacher of Students with Moderate Disabilities (for PreK-8) are required to complete 450 hours in an inclusive general education setting or 112 hours in an inclusive general education setting and 338 hours in a separate or substantially separate setting for students with moderate disabilities.  
    Prerequisite(s):
    • EDU 2500  
    • EDU 2510  
    • EDU 2520  
    • 3.0 GPA in program
    • successful completion of all related MTELs
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Reading sub-test
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Writing sub-test
      • General Curriculum (03) - Math sub-test
      • General Curriculum (03) - Multi-Subject sub-test
      • Foundations of Reading (90)
    • positive PDQs
    • approval from the TEP committee

    Corequisite(s): EDU 4920  or EDU 4921  
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
  
  • EDU 4901 - Practicum - Middle Schools

    Credits: 12
    The culminating experience for the teacher preparation program is a field based practicum. During the practicum, students demonstrate competency in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) Professional Standards for Teachers (PST) and Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) standards under the direct supervision of a licensed Supervising Practitioner and Program Supervisor. Students will continue to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to effectively apply the standards and demonstrate through direct teaching.
    Prerequisite(s):
    • EDU 2500   
    • EDU 2510  
    • EDU 2520  
    • 3.0 GPA in program
    • successful completion of all related MTELs
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Reading sub-test
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Writing sub-test
      • Subject-specific MTEL
    • positive PDQs
    • approval from the TEP committee

    Corequisite(s): EDU 4920    or EDU 4921  
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
  
  • EDU 4902 - Practicum - Secondary Schools

    Credits: 12
    The culminating experience for the teacher preparation program is a field based practicum. During the practicum, students demonstrate competency in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) Professional Standards for Teachers (PST) and Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) standards under the direct supervision of a licensed Supervising Practitioner and Program Supervisor. Students will continue to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to effectively apply the standards and demonstrate through direct teaching.
    Prerequisite(s):
    • EDU 2500  
    • EDU 2510  
    • EDU 2520  
    • 3.0 GPA in program
    • successful completion of all related MTELs
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Reading sub-test
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Writing sub-test
      • Subject-specific MTEL
    • positive PDQs
    • approval from the TEP committee

    Corequisite(s): EDU 4920   or EDU 4921  
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
  
  • EDU 4903 - Practicum - Elementary Schools

    Credits: 12
    The culminating experience for the teacher preparation program is a 450 hour field based practicum and co-requisite seminar.  During the practicum, teacher candidates (TC) must successfully complete the Candidate Assessment of Performance process (CAP) in order to complete the teacher preparation program.   The CAP assesses a TC’s readiness in relations to the Professional Standards for Teachers (PSTs). CAP parallels the Massachusetts Educator Evaluation system in order to better prepare TCs and ensure that they are ready to be effective on day one. It measures the TC’s practice across a range of key indicators as outlined in the Guidelines for the Professional Standards for Teacher and supports them in improving their practice based on the results.
    Prerequisite(s):
    • EDU 2500 
    • EDU 2510
    • EDU 2520
    • 3.0 GPA in program
    • successful completion of all related MTELs
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Reading sub-test
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Writing sub-test
      • General Curriculum (03) - Math sub-test
      • General Curriculum (03) - Multi-Subject sub-test
      • Foundations of Reading (90)
    • positive PDQs
    • approval from the TEP committee

    Corequisite(s): EDU 4920 or EDU 4921 
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
  
  • EDU 4905 - Practicum - Early Childhood Education

    Credits: 12
    The culminating experience for the teacher preparation program is a 450 hour field based practicum and co-requisite seminar.  During the practicum, teacher candidates (TC) must successfully complete the Candidate Assessment of Performance process (CAP) in order to complete the teacher preparation program.   The CAP assesses a TC’s readiness in relations to the Professional Standards for Teachers (PSTs). CAP parallels the Massachusetts Educator Evaluation system in order to better prepare TCs and ensure that they are ready to be effective on day one. It measures the TC’s practice across a range of key indicators as outlined in the Guidelines for the Professional Standards for Teacher and supports them in improving their practice based on the results.  Early Childhood practicum is (100 hours in PreK-K, 200 hours in 1-2; at least one setting must include children with disabilities).
    Prerequisite(s):
    • EDU 2500  
    • EDU 2510  
    • EDU 2520  
    • 3.0 GPA in program
    • successful completion of all related MTELs
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Reading sub-test
      • Communications and Literacy (01) - Writing sub-test
      • Foundations of Reading (90)
      • Early Childhood (02) 
    • positive PDQs
    • approval from the TEP committee

    Corequisite(s): EDU 4920  or EDU 4921  
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
  
  • EDU 4920 - Seminar: Practicum Organization

    Credits: 0
    This seminar gives the students the opportunity to accept full responsibility for planning, organizing, and managing their practicum responsibilities.
  
  • EDU 4921 - Seminar: Practicum Implementation

    Credits: 0
    The seminar is designed to help Teacher Education Program candidates reflect on current practices, challenges, resolutions, and search for personal meaning. The seminar will focus on the completion of the CAP.
  
  • EDU 4999 - Honors Research Seminar

    Credits: 4
    This Honors Seminar is for Education majors (Juniors) who wish to pursue a specialized research project prior to the Practicum in senior year. Weekly discussions and presentation of progress on research are required. Consent of the instructor and department chair is required.
  
  • MTE 1411 - Algebra for Elementary Teachers

    Credits: 2
    This course is the second of a three-part sequence designed to help prospective elementary school teachers develop a deep understanding of the underlying structure of mathematics. The course will include a detailed study of: algebraic expressions, equations, ratio and proportional relationships, and functions. Students will be expected to demonstrate not only that they know how to do algebra but that they can explain in multiple ways why it makes sense. Particular emphasis will be given to (1) the use of multiple representations, (2) accurate mathematical communication, (3) connections between mathematical ideas, (4) application of mathematical reasoning and (5) solving problems using mathematical habits of mind. Students are required to pass all three courses in this sequence prior to enrolling in EDU 3340 Teaching Mathematics.
    Prerequisite(s): MTE 1410  

Electrical Engineering

  
  • EEN 1001 - Introduction to Engineering

    Credits: 4
    This course provides freshman engineering students with the communication skills needed in college and throughout their careers, and introduces them to the profession of engineering, computer skills, report generation, public speaking, leadership and teamwork skills are covered. This course is the electrical engineering version of the introductory course taken by all Engineering majors, and along with a general introduction to engineering tools concepts of voltage, current, resistance and reactance are covered. Applications covered include basic circuits including power and energy calculations.
    Three lecture hours and three lab hours a week.
  
  • EEN 1065 - Introduction to Electricity and Electronics for Non Engineers

    Credits: 4
    This course is designed to introduce in a non-intimidating way the large realm of electricity and electronics that surrounds our daily experience. Beyond lectures and numerous demonstrations, it will provide a “hands-on” experience through simple lab experiments and applications. Starting with the basic laws of electricity, it will next evolve to the devices that manipulate electricity, and finally advance to a discussion of general systems and their operations. The “hands-on” experience will facilitate and enable non engineering students to unravel the mysteries of this discipline and reinforce their intuitive knowledge with practical and useful experience. Open to Non EE Majors Only.
    Fulfills: STEM in LS Core.
    Three lecture hours supplemented by regular laboratory experiences.
  
  • EEN 1200 - Digital Fundamentals

    Credits: 4
    The design and analysis of digital systems that the bit, gate, flip-flop level with particular emphasis on the application of digital systems. Topics include Boolean algebra, logic gates, and integrated circuit design including the use of Karnaugh maps to minimize the number of gates; combinational systems such as arithmetic circuits, decoders, encoders, and multiplexers, and dynamic logic blocks as latches, Flip-Flops, counters and shift registers. Laboratory projects will involve designing, building, and testing of some digital systems.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 1001  or by examination by professor or EEN 1065 , and MTH 1000  with a C or higher.
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 2130 - Circuit Theory I

    Credits: 4
    Course addresses the fundamentals of circuit theory including, Ohm’s Law and resistive circuits, Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws, basic DC circuit analysis and network theorems, nodal and loop analysis, and equivalent circuit concepts. The study of capacitors, inductors, and transient circuits, including their many applications, are also covered.
    Prerequisite(s): MTH 1217  
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 2140 - Circuit Theory II

    Credits: 4
    This course is a continuation of EEN 2130 , with focus on AC circuit analysis, including: transient response of RC and RL circuits, and AC steady-state circuit concepts including forcing functions, phasors, and impedance. Also covered are such topics as steady-state power analysis, polyphase circuits, frequency response, and discussion of network performance.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 2130 .
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 2270 - Embedded Microprocessors

    Credits: 4
    Today’s computers fall into two categories. The first uses high performance microprocessors such as the Pentium Class of Processors. The second category focuses on issues of space, cost, low power and fast development in products such as wireless phones, automobiles, security systems, and washing machines. This course focuses on the second category and the Hardware and Software design of these controllers. Students will learn how to design embedded systems via both lecture and laboratory instruction. Laboratory projects will include designing, building and testing of these systems and evaluating the HW/SW tradeoffs.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 1200  or CSC 4720 , and  CSC 1610  or CSC 1611 .
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 3130 - Linear Signals and Systems

    Credits: 4
    Continuous time linear signals and systems are described and analyzed in both time and frequency domains. Sinusoids (complex exponentials) and differential equations are used to represent signals and systems in the time domain with response developed via the convolution integral. Frequency domain analysis includes the capabilities of the Fourier series, Fourier transform and the Laplace transform. Applications in signal processing are included to provide context for the analysis technique.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 2140  and MTH 2220 .
    Four hours of lecture a week.
  
  • EEN 3210 - Electronics I

    Credits: 4
    The semiconductor pn junction, diodes, diode circuits, and its application are studied. A detailed study of field effect transistors (FETs), including physical structure and regions of operation, DC biasing circuits design and analysis, ac small signal equivalent circuit, switching and amplifier applications. Design and analysis of common-source, emitter follower amplifiers using FETs. A detailed study of bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), including physical structure- and regions of operation, DC biasing circuits design and analysis.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 2140 CHM 1110   or equivalent.
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 3220 - Electronics II

    Credits: 4
    A detailed study of bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) ac large and small signal equivalent circuit, switching and amplifier applications. Design and Analysis of common-source and emitter followers at low and high frequencies. An introduction to operational amplifier (op-amps), its characteristics and applications. Analyzing several ideal op-amps such as inverter and non-inverter. Designing and analyzing FETs and BJTs, current sources (current mirrors). Basic understanding the characteristics and terminology of the ideal differential amplifier. Analyzing the basic bipolar differential amplifier.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 3210 .
    Three hours of lecture a week and one three-hour laboratory a week.
  
  • EEN 3270 - Energy, Generation, Conservation and Technology

    Credits: 4
    Course covers generation, transmission and distribution of U.S. electrical power systems. Faradays’ law is covered, with applications to generators and transformers. A significant portion of the course is devoted to Energy Efficiency and Renewable energy (EERE) topics, including wind, hydro and solar. The importance of EERE in light of present environmental, economic and ethical considerations is covered. Energy measurement and smart grid technology are discussed. This is a junior level “project” course, and a significant project involving real-world EERE is required.
    Prerequisite(s): EE Junior Standing.
    Six hours of lecture, demonstrations, and lab experiences a week.
  
  • EEN 3430 - Engineering Electromagnetics

    Credits: 4
    Course covers vectors, fields, and mathematical quantities associated with fields. Transmission line theory is covered, with coaxial cable as an application. Electrostatics and Magnetostatics are covered. Faraday’s and Ampere’s laws are covered, along with the full set of Maxwell’s laws. Plane wave radiation concepts are explored, including polarization and power density. Applications and real-world examples are stressed throughout the course.
    Prerequisite(s): PHY 2211 , MTH 2219 , and EEN 3270 .
    Six hours of lecture, demonstrations, and lab experiences a week.
  
  • EEN 4145 - Discrete Time Signals and Systems

    Credits: 4
    An advanced elective that parallels a student’s understanding of continuous time signals and systems with a complete treatment of discrete time signals and systems with applications. This course will introduce the sampling process and develop discrete time signal and system representation and analysis in both time and frequency domains. The Z-Transform will be developed to ease difference equation analysis analogous to the continuous time Laplace transform. Digital Filtering, including both Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) will be used to apply methods.
    Prerequisite(s):  Senior standing
    Four hours of lecture a week.
  
  • EEN 4175 - Digital Architecture and the Hardware Description Language

    Credits: 4
    Advances in silicon technology have enabled System-on-Chip (SOC) designs containing more than ten million gates. Several aspects of engineering need careful attention in highly complex component design projects: Architecture, partitioning and hierarchy; design verification; design-for-reuse. This advanced elective will introduce students to the Verilog Hardware Description Language as we apply common digital architectures to a range of high-level functional design problems. Using lab- and project-based teaching, we will write behavioral descriptions and synthesize hardware in the form of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 2270  
    Lecture and Lab.
  
  • EEN 4265 - Engineering Management

    Credits: 4
    Formerly: EEN5265
    An introductory course in the management of technology-based companies combining reading, lecture, case study and project teaching methods. The course presents introductory material from the areas of accounting and financial principles, R&D management, project development, management practices and human factors. Language and effective communication principles will be a recurring theme throughout the course.
    Prerequisite(s): Approval by Advisor, and senior or graduate student standing.
    Four hours of lecture a week.
  
  • EEN 4270 - Feedback Circuits

    Credits: 4
    The basic theory of feedback control systems using classical approaches. Feedback problems are formulated and treated from the transfer function, s-plane and frequency response approaches. The role of the system characteristic equation in determining transfer function, transient response and system stability is emphasize by examples of operational amplifier circuits.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 3220  and MTH 2220   
    Four hours of lecture a week.
  
  • EEN 4555 - Power Engineering and Power Quality

    Credits: 4
    Formerly: EEN5555
    Course covers Phasors, real and reactive power in single phase and poly-phase AC circuits; balance three phase circuits; power in three phase circuits analysis; introduction to power quality; power quality problems and solution such as, electrical transients, harmonics, voltage regulation, and power factor including harmonics power filter design. Magnetic circuits and introduction to transformer and its circuit analysis, such as, open and short circuits test are covered. Circuit concepts and analysis for AC/DC motors and generators, building electrical systems, such as, building design and motor circuit design.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 3430  or equivalent.
    Four hours of lecture a week.
  
  • EEN 4705 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    Credits: 2
    Reading, lectures, study and research on topics of importance in electrical engineering. This course is tailored to the interest of the faculty and students and is offered only on demand.
    Prerequisite(s): consent of the instructor.
    Class and lecture format is variable.
  
  • EEN 4715 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    Credits: 4
    Reading, lectures, study and research on topics of importance in electrical engineering. This course is tailored to the interest of the faculty and students and is offered only on demand.
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
    Class and lecture format is variable.
  
  • EEN 4805 - Directed Study

    Credits: 2
    Qualified students may propose a course of individual study and work to be conducted under the direction of a member of the department. Based on the needs of industry, special topics in a particular research area may be proposed by the faculty as well.
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
  
  • EEN 4815 - Directed Study

    Credits: 4
    Qualified students may propose a course of individual study and work to be conducted under the direction of a member of the department. Based on the needs of industry, special topics in a particular research area may be proposed by the faculty as well.
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
  
  • EEN 4960 - Design Project I

    Credits: 2
    Design Project I and II form a project-oriented laboratory drawing on the student’s prior work in electronics, computer systems, control systems, communication or energy conversion. In the first semester, the student formulates a design project (or research study) in consultation with the instructor. Project plans are developed through a phase gate development model to the point of design review. Students participate in planning and design phases as technical reviewers in addition to their individual design responsibility.
    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing.
    Fulfills: W and X in LS Core
    Two hours of lecture per week.
  
  • EEN 4970 - Design Project II

    Credits: 2
    Design Project I and II form a project-oriented laboratory drawing on the student’s prior work in electrical engineering. Tasks such as layout, fabrication, coding and test are generally required as students complete project implementation. Project developments complete the phase gate model with students serving as the reviewers and technical resources in addition to their individual responsibility. Project presentations complete the capstone experience.
    Prerequisite(s): EEN 4960 .
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
    Two hours of lecture per week.

English

  
  • ENG 1000 - Grammar Competence for Multilingual Students

    Credits: 4
    Formerly: WRT1000
    This course will strengthen the fundamental English linguistic competence of  multilingual students, preparing them for the challenges of  FYW1050 Introduction to College Writing. Primary emphasis will be on vocabulary, grammatical structures, rhetorical principles, and reading strategies necessary for academic writing. Secondary emphasis will be on oral communication skills and cultural attunement. This course does not fulfill any Liberal Studies core requirements.
  
  • ENG 1050 - Introduction to College Writing

    Credits: 4


    Formerly: FYW1050
    Introduction to the rhetorical practices of college-level writing. Emphasizes the foundations of academic discourse, with attention to language, purpose, and context. Students will read and analyze texts to prepare them to write for different audiences. Will include library instruction, research, and documentation.

    Does not count toward English major or minor.
    Fulfills: First Year Writing in LS Core.

  
  • ENG 1060 - Horror Fiction

    Credits: 4
    This introductory-level course will examine our culture’s fascination with narratives involving the supernatural, the deviant and the macabre. It will challenge students to identify the variety of ways in which classic and contemporary horror stories manage to haunt their readers.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 1065 - Travelers’ Tales

    Credits: 4
    This course explores a wide variety of modern and contemporary travel narratives, examining the ways in which travel writers compose their stories and reshape the conventions that inform this genre.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 1070 - The American Short Story

    Credits: 4
    While short, stories are not simple. They are not the first twenty pages of a novel.  Short stories are a beguiling, vexing art form all to themselves, a feat of economy and power and mood. Though short stories have time-honored roots throughout the world, this country boasts a strong tradition in story writing, and even a skim off the top will reveal something deeply American in our characters’ quest for a place in the world.  In this class, we will read a sampling of short stories by American authors across two centuries, from Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” (1819) to Karen Russell’s, “Orange World” (2018). The course will study the evolution of the genre, with attention to structure, narrative technique, aesthetic choices, and thematic concerns.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 1200 - Inequality & Justice in Life/Literature

    Credits: 4
    This first-year interdisciplinary course examines issues in the justice system and society at-large, through the lens of Criminology and literature. We will look at a variety of justice-related issues, cases, and social movements in conjunction with the art and literature that is inspired by and results from them. Race, gender, and class inequality within the U.S. justice system, perceptions of criminals and victims, immigration, genocide, domestic violence, and mass incarceration are some of the topics we will cover.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 1500 - Major British and World Authors

    Credits: 4
    One-semester course designed to introduce students to British and World literature through selected works of writers both classic and modern, as well as others from continental European and non-European traditions.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 1550 - Major American Authors

    Credits: 4
    One-semester course designed to introduce students to American literature through the study of writers representing a range of cultures and literary traditions.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core.
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 2050 - Introduction to Literary Studies

    Credits: 4
    This course introduces students to such traditional literary genres as fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as newer and emerging forms such as the graphic novel, creative non-fiction, digital storytelling, and film. Emphasis is given to teaching students to read closely and to write analytically. The course also familiarizes students with a variety of interpretive strategies. Students leave the course recognizing the value of close reading and self-conscious interpretation.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 2055 - Sophomore Seminar in English

    Credits: 4
    Required of all English majors, the sophomore seminar is a special topics course designed to provide students with the opportunity to: 1) learn to read literature actively within the context of the discipline of English studies; 2) Study a variety of literary and cultural forms of expression; 3) gain experience in using a variety of interpretive approaches to reading texts; 4) gain practice in the intensive oral and written exchange of ideas and analysis promoted by the seminar format, as necessary preparation for the more advanced work they will undertake upper-level courses in the English program, particularly the senior capstone seminar. Course assignments emphasize the fundamental importance of conversation among scholars within the field of English studies and collaboration among students and between students and faculty. The sophomore seminar is offered each spring semester and is taught by the full-time English faculty on a rotating basis.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 2100 - History of Film

    Credits: 4
    This course will offer an exploratory survey of the history of cinema, detailing the major movements, directors, studios and genres from the 1890s to the present. Over the past 125 years, film has arguably been the most influential medium in American and global culture. From the advent of sound and color to digital filmmaking, it has also continually reinvented itself, as it adapts to changes in technology and culture, finding new means of presentation, expression and storytelling. This course offers a journey through time, covering the birth of film; the Hollywood studio era; the postwar era; the new Hollywood era; the blockbuster era; and the digital area. We will watch a range of representative films within these historical contexts, analyzing their techniques, forms, genres, and meanings.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 2150 - Introduction to Creative Writing

    Credits: 4
    Introduction to Creative Writing introduces the main genres of creative writing, including poetry, memoir, and fiction.  In addition to producing their own creative forms such as poems, song lyrics, literary memoir, and short stories, students will study the works of contemporary and canonical authors in each genre. Classwork includes the workshopping of both short and longer projects and will culminate in a portfolio of revised work.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 2770 - Literature and Film

    Credits: 4
    Study of the transformation of works of literature into film, focusing on the different techniques used in cinema, literature, and the relationship of film to traditional literature. Class will focus on four major films and the literature they are based on.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3100 - Beowulf and Old English Literature

    Credits: 4
    Study of Beowulf and other poetic and prose works of the period 700-1100 in translation as well as in Old English. Attention to these works in their historical and cultural contexts and to the development of the English language. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3140 - Chaucer and Middle English Literature

    Credits: 4
    Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and other poetic and prose works of the period 1100-1485 in Middle English and in translation. Attention to these works in their historical and cultural contexts and to the development of the English language. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3220 - Revenge and Romance: Renaissance Drama

    Credits: 4
    Through close study of selected plays produced in England from 1590-1642 by Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford, this course examines the literary and theatrical dimensions of Renaissance drama, with particular attention to how the plays dramatize contradictory forces in English Renaissance culture and to placing Shakespeare’s plays in the context of drama by his contemporaries. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3250 - Shakespearean Drama

    Credits: 4
    This course explores Shakespearean drama through close study of six plays selected from among the tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances, with emphasis on how our understanding of the plays is shaped by literary genre, early modern theatrical conventions, and the cultural contradictions of the English Renaissance. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3280 - Milton and the Culture of Revolution

    Credits: 4
    This course examines Milton’s Paradise Lost and other poetic and prose works of seventeenth century England in their historical context. Addresses the impact of the English Civil War on the literary imagination, with special attention to political and religious controversy. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3300 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

    Credits: 4
    Study of writers and works of the period 1660-1800 in their historical and cultural context. Addresses the rise and decline of satire and the emergence of Preromanticism, with special attention to the role of genre in shaping literary expression. Emphasis on authors such as Behn, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3320 - Jane Austen and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Credits: 4
    This course examines the emergence of the English novel as a literary form, with special focus on the achievement of Jane Austen.  Addresses the impact of historical context, the development of narrative technique, and the ongoing relevance of Austen in popular culture today.   Includes novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding.  Before 1800. Three hours a week.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3350 - Sex, Race, and Empire: 1660-1814

    Credits: 4
    This course examines the emergence of women and black male writers into the world of public authorship in England during the Restoration and eighteenth-century. Addresses questions of gender, constructions of race, and impact of mercantile expansion on the literary imagination. Includes such writers as Cavendish, Behn, Equiano, Wollstonecraft, and Austen. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3360 - The Undead Eighteenth Century: Origins of English Gothic Literature

    Credits: 4
    This course examines the origins of English gothic verse and fiction, from the Graveyard Poets through Jane Austen. Attention to the formal conventions of the genre, focusing on the ways in which the supernatural mediates the rational and the irrational, sin and salvation, and licit and illicit sexuality, as well as the persistence of the gothic in popular culture today. Before 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3400 - Road Trips

    Credits: 4
    Featuring the work of British Romantic writers, this course examines the cultural, political, and personal importance of movement through time, space and imagination. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3550 - Modernist Mayhem: Decadence and Destruction in Early 20th Century Literature

    Credits: 4
    Study of American literature produced by American authors beginning at the turn of the century within the social and cultural context of the period. Emphasis on writers such as Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Abraham Cahan, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3570 - Queer Modernism

    Credits: 4
    This course explores developments in the history of sexuality and literary modernism via a focus on Queer Modernism of the radical 1920s. All modernist output is
    queer in some ways, because of Modernisms focus on experimentation and boundary-breaking in artistic form and content. But in this class we take a deep dive into the dominant theories of gender and sexuality that modernist writers addressed both personally and professionally, the literary works that these theories and discourses inspired, and more recent theories of queerness. Authors we read will include E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Amy Lowell, Claude McKay, and others. 
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3620 - Contemporary American Literature

    Credits: 4
    Study of American literature since the 1960s as a reflection of the social and cultural upheavals of the period. Emphasis on writers such as Dubus, Tan, Wilson, Harjo, Banks, Cisneros, DeLillo, Rich, and Mamet. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3640 - The Eighties: Literature, Film, and Culture in the Blockbuster Era

    Credits: 4


    The 1980s saw the beginning of a new kind of culture in America - what might be termed the “blockbuster era.” It was an era of big things: big movies, events, crazes, hair. Some historians have described it as the height of the monoculture: the last decade when nearly everyone experienced a cultural event together, whether the final episode of M.A.S.H., the premiere of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, or the phenomenon of E.T. While the decade is often characterized as the Reagan Era due to the undeniable influence of the two-term president, pop culture ruled the world. It was the decade of MTV and VHS home videos, Apple computers and Nintendo, Sony Walkmans and synthesizers. It has often been labeled an era of greed, conspicuous consumption, and obsession with image; yet this only tells part of the story. This course offers an in-depth exploration of the cross-currents and competing narratives of the Blockbuster Era. Taking cues from its period of study, the course is interdisciplinary in nature, looking at a wide range of “texts,” including novels, films, music videos, commercials, short stories, articles, and song lyrics. Drawing on such sources we will investigate a number of issues against the landscape of the Eighties, including nostalgia, identity, the cold war, urban decay, the AIDS crisis, gender bending, and futurism. These topics will not only allow us to better understand one of the most influential decades of the 20th century, but also to draw connections to the world we live in today.

     
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core

  
  • ENG 3680 - World Drama: The Theatrical Impulse Then and Now

    Credits: 4
    This course traces the theatrical impulse in Western culture by studying the development of drama as a major literary form, from the classical drama of ancient Greece and the European medieval and early modern theater to works from the American and contemporary world stages. Attention to genre, theater history, and the cultural work that drama performs at different moments in its history as well as to how plays are shaped by theater spaces and staging conventions. Readings from such playwrights as Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Brecht, Beckett, Churchill, and Vogel. Before or After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3730 - Modern American Poetry

    Credits: 4
    As developments in the realms of science, industry, and philosophy came to overturn many of the most widely held truths of the 19th century, they also required artists to, in Ezra Pound’s words, “make it new.” This course will focus on High Modernism alongside the modernisms of the disenfranchised. Writers may include Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Hughes, Loy, Robinson, Frost, Lowell, and Brown. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3735 - Hollywood’s America: Gender, Race and Class in American Cinema

    Credits: 4
    Movies are undeniably the most popular art form of the 20th and 21st centuries and, as a result, provide important insights into the American experience. This course will study landmark Hollywood films that helped to shape modern American identity. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3745 - Green Screen: Environmental Film

    Credits: 4
    This course examines ecological themes through the medium of film. What ideas do films communicate about the natural world? What impact do they have on audiences? What can close, critical readings of these movies reveal? We will explore such questions through three main branches of cinema: narrative feature films, documentaries, and music videos. Films will include Blade Runner, The Emerald Forest, Jurassic Park, Earth Song, An Inconvenient Truth, Into the Wild, I Heart Huckabees, Avatar, Waste Land, and Wall-E.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3750 - Gods and Monsters: The Shelley Circle

    Credits: 4
    This course examines the ways in which British romantic writers P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron used their writing to expose the deformities that issue when repression perverts imagination and sexuality. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours per week.
  
  • ENG 3755 - Special Topics: World Cinema

    Credits: 4
    World cinema by its very nature is transnational, as local and global concerns interact, and international production and distribution, enhanced since the 1990’s by an ever evolving and borderless digital technology, underscore the increasing globalization of the film industry.  This special topics course will focus on specific dimensions of world cinema such as Nordic Noir, New Wave Cinema, Third (World) Cinema, and Auteur Cinema. Students will explore films from specific areas of the world, and also study the global dynamics of the film industry. Finally, they will learn how film, as well as other dimensions of pop culture, functions as sites for collective debate over transnational politics and relations. 
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3760 - Science Fiction Cinema

    Credits: 4
    Perhaps no other genre is as popular in contemporary film as science fiction – from franchises like Star Wars and Hunger Games to blockbusters like Avatar and Interstellar to groundbreaking television series’ like Westworld. One reason for this popularity is that sci fi films are often spectacles that display the most dazzling, cutting-edge special effects and visual tableaus. More than mere entertainment, however, the best science fiction cinema has always posed profound questions about our place in the universe, what makes us human, and where we are headed (for better or worse). Science fiction films, that is, compel us to imagine beyond the day-to-day, beyond the ordinary. They induce a sense of awe, wonder, sometimes even trepidation about the possibilities of the future. This course offers a journey through the genre, from the earliest short films to the most recent sci fi classics.  We will situate each film within its historical, cultural, and critical context, not only analyzing its techniques, forms, and aesthetic innovations, but also its messaging and meanings.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3780 - Poets of New England

    Credits: 4
    Study of New England poets and their influence upon the evolution of a distinctly American poetry. Particular emphasis upon the significance of New England landscape as subject matter, inspiration, and metaphor. Writers may include Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Anne Bradstreet, E. A. Robinson, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3790 - Poe, Hawthorne, and the American Short Story

    Credits: 4
    Study of the influence of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne upon the emergence of the modern short story, as well as cultural changes within 19th-century America that contributed to the increased market for this new genre. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3820 - Twentieth-Century Drama and Performance by Women

    Credits: 4
    This course studies a range of twentieth-century female dramatists, exploring how their plays represent issues that are crucial to women’s lives, including identity, family, marriage, motherhood, beauty/body image, race, sexuality, and social class, along with how they both embrace and challenge traditional dramatic forms and styles. Readings include works by African-American, Latina, European-American, and British writers and dramatic forms such as the realistic ensemble drama, the one-woman show, mixed media presentations, and theater of the absurd. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL and D in LS Core
    Three hours a week
  
  • ENG 3860 - Beyond The Godfather: Italian American Women Writers

    Credits: 4
    Moving beyond the cultural stereotypes that associate Italian Americans mainly with food and organized crime, this course examines the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and writing in autobiography, fiction, poetry, and memoir by Italian American women authors, focusing on how these writers have discovered, expressed, and redefined their problematic identities within American and Italian American culture as they grapple with such issues as the immigration experience, Old World/New World conflicts, Italian American stereotypes, family, motherhood, marriage, sexuality, beauty/body image, and work. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL and D in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3870 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

    Credits: 4
    This course will approach the study of literary modernism (roughly 1890-1940) by focusing on the works of the Harlem Renaissance. We will examine the diversity of African American identities represented in this literature and consider how the Harlem Renaissance helps to redefine America during this fraught historical moment. Readings to be selected from such authors as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3880 - Michael Jackson: Reading the King of Pop as Cultural Text

    Credits: 4
    As a pop star who reached unprecedented levels of fame, artistic success, and wealth in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and who was subsequently ridiculed, criminalized, and vilified by the very society that elevated him to such heights, Michael Jackson constitutes a most complex and revealing cultural text. This course will “read” Michael Jackson’s work as a musician, songwriter, dancer, and visual artist in order to explore the ways in which Jackson’s artistic production and cultural presence intersect with and comment on late twentieth-century ideas of gender, race, sexuality, media/celebrity culture, and the role of the popular artist in society. The primary objects of study in the course are Jackson’s short musical films, but course materials will also include popular culture theory, recent scholarship on Jackson, and selections from Jackson’s recorded music, filmed concerts, television appearances, autobiographical writings, interviews, public statements, and press coverage. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL and D in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3900 - Creative Writing: Fiction

    Credits: 4
    This course is designed for students interested in working with fiction writing. The first half of the course involves analyzing selected short stories and working with focused creative writing exercises. The second half of the course is set up as a fiction workshop, with students presenting their fiction to small groups and to the class as a whole.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 3902 - Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

    Credits: 4
    Introduces the genre of creative nonfiction in order for students to explore concerns of the body (identity, sexuality, gender). In this course, subtitled “Our Bodies, Our Selves: Identity + the Body,” students will study and produce prose forms such as autobiography, literary memoir, hybrid essays, and more. The course will include writing exercises, reading assignments, and the discussion of peers’ drafts in workshop format. We will read three full-length works of non-fiction, as well as essays and excerpts throughout the semester.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 3920 - Creative Writing: Poetry

    Credits: 4
    This course is designed for students interested in writing poetry, specifically to write about family. Subtitled, “Diving into the Wreck: Excavating Family Histories, the course will involve reading poetry as well as working with focused creative writing exercises and the reading and discussion of student’s poetry in workshop format. We will read three full-length poetry collections, as well as an array of poems throughout the semester. 
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 4000 - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction

    Credits: 4
    Discussion and critical evaluation of students’ fiction pieces in workshop format. Designed for students with a previous background in fiction writing and an understanding of the conventions of the genre in which they are working.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  , ENG 3900 , or permission of instructor.
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
  
  • ENG 4102 - The New England Shore

    Credits: 4
    This seminar course will focus on the work of modern and contemporary naturalist writers who have found their inspiration in the New England coastal landscape. Course work includes field visits to many of the seashore locales featured in the works students will be studying. After 1800.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
    Fulfills: AL in LS Core
  
  • ENG 4750 - Field Experience in Creative Writing: Jail Education Teaching Assistantship


    This experiential learning course is designed for upperclassmen English majors interested in working with incarcerated people.  Students work as Teaching Assistants to professors teaching creative writing or other English courses at Essex County Correctional Center (ECCF) in Middleton, MA.  Students are required to visit the jail at least 2x per week (at least 5 hours total) to attend faculty-taught classes and/or meet with the class on nights faculty are not present.  Students are responsible for assisting faculty with classroom activities, helping incarcerated students with writing, editing, and revising, holding writing workshops, and assisting interested incarcerated students with applications to Northern Essex Community College or North Shore Community College. Students will also be responsible for compiling and editing an anthology of creative works by incarcerated writers.  In addition to their responsibilities in the jail, students are required to complete a selection of readings related to mass incarceration and higher education, complete a research project correctional education in creative writing, and finally, write writing weekly reflections, which they will compile in an end-of-semester portfolio. Students must submit an application to be considered. This course fulfills a Creative Writing Concentration requirement or English elective for English majors.

     
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 2150  and ENG 3900 , or by instructor’s permission. 
    Fulfills: X in LS Core

  
  • ENG 4850 - Public Service Fall or Spring Internship

    Credits: 8
    As participant observers, students study theoretical and practical approaches to government by serving as research and staff aides to leaders in the public sector at the federal, state or local levels of government. Students must work at least an average of 20 hours per week in the field. In addition, students will work individually and in groups with the internship Director to produce a 20-25 page research paper on a topic related to the internship experience.
    Prerequisite(s): Seniors and juniors with permission from the Instructor and English Dept. Chair.
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
    Note: Four (4) of the eight credits earned for this internship may be used to fulfill an English major Elective requirement.
  
  • ENG 4851 - Public Service Summer Internship

    Credits: 4
    As participant observers, students study theoretical and practical approaches to government by serving as research and staff aides to leaders in the public sector at the federal, state or local levels of government. Students must work in the field at least an average of 15 hours per week for eight weeks, totaling 120 hours. In addition, students will work individually through email with the internship Director to produce a 10-15 page reflective research paper on a topic related to the internship experience.
    Prerequisite(s): Seniors and juniors with permission from the Instructor and English Dept. Chair.
    Fulfills: X in LS Core
    Note: The four (4) credits earned for this internship may be used to fulfill an English major Elective requirement.
  
  • ENG 4852 - Co-Curricular Internship

    Credits: 0
    Qualified, intermediate or advanced students working under the supervision of full-time English Department faculty in any one of a variety of non-credit bearing co-curricular internship opportunities offered as part of the English program, including: English Department Newsletter Production Board, Senior Spring Symposium Production Board, Writers House Programming Board, Field-Research. Through hands-on experience, the co-curricular internship cultivates in students greater knowledge and skill at performing core tasks relevant to publishing, event planning, marketing, journalism and more. 10-15 hours per week. No-credit.
  
  • ENG 4900 - Directed Study

    Credits: 4
    Intensive program of reading/writing under the direction of a full time member of the department. Provides qualified seniors and second-semester juniors with an opportunity to work in depth on a focused topic not covered by the usual departmental course offerings. Requires a formal detailed proposal approved by the faculty members and the department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 2050 , at least three additional courses in the major, a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the major, or permission of the instructor, in addition to the approval of the chair and consent of the members of the department under whose supervision the Directed Study will be conducted.
  
  • ENG 4920 - Theories and Practices in the Tutoring of Writing

    Credits: 4
    Formerly: WRT4920
    This course is a practicum in tutoring and developing/articulating Writing Center programs accompanied by readings in Writing Center theory and written reflection on current issues in the field. Directed research aimed at producing Writing Center materials, tutoring guides, conference presentations, and/or published articles. May be taken only once for credit.  
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  and permission of the Writing Center Director. 
    Fulfills: W and X in LS Core
    Note: This course is offered as writing intensive.
  
  • ENG 4950 - Senior Seminar

    Credits: 4
    Study of selected texts and contexts in seminar format to foster integration of knowledge concerning literature and language as well as to explore issues relating to the creation and interpretation of texts and the current status of English studies. Required for English majors.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050  , ENG 2050 , and senior status.
    Fulfills: W in LS Core
    Three hours a week.
    Note: This course is offered as writing intensive.

Environmental Sciences and Sustainability

  
  • ESS 1050 - Environmental Studies and Sustainability Gateway

    Credits: 4
    This gateway course is required of all majors and is an interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies and sustainability from the perspectives of the natural sciences, the social sciences, business and ethics to the range of environmental problems confronting the globe today. The course provides an overview of both global and regional issues and discusses different approaches to achieving sustainability.
    Fulfills: X in LS Core.
  
  • ESS 1060 - Environmental Science Gateway

    Credits: 4
    This course will introduce students to various facets of environmental science. Students will explore the impacts of human activity on the physical, biological, and chemical aspects of atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial ecosystems. The primary focus is to introduce the types of methodology and knowledge used to analyze, assess, and manage environmental problems.
    Prerequisite(s): MTH 1000  
    Fulfills: STEM in LS Core
  
  • ESS 2100 - Environmental Research Methods

    Credits: 4
    All environmental problems possess both scientific and social dimensions.  Hence, identifying, diagnosing, and developing responses to these environmental problems will require a diverse set of skills and methods.  This course aims to familiarize students with the theory of research design and basic research methods helpful in environmental contexts.
    Prerequisite(s): ESS 1050  and ESS 1060  
  
  • ESS 2130 - Food Justice


    This course explores ethical and social justice issues involved in food and argricultural practices.  It considers both questions of personal ethics and takes an ecological, systems-based approach to how food is produced, transported, distributed, marketed, prepared, and consumed.  It examines key ethical and political theories and principles that can be used to evalute choices, habits, and practices concerning food.  Topics include: the environmental effects of argiculture and food production, how workers and farmers fare in a globalized argricultural system, the relationship between food production and immigration, food accessibility and insecurity (including hunger and malnutrition, both locally and globally), social and cultural norms surrounding food (including those related to health and bodies), and food as a commodity and agriculture as a business.
    Prerequisite(s): PHL 1000  or PHL 1100  or PHL 1200  
    Cross-Listed: PHL 2130  
  
  • ESS 2410 - Environmental Chemistry

    Credits: 4
    The chemistry of the air, water, and soil, will be presented with respect to sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemicals in these regions.
  
  • ESS 3001 - Introduction to GIS

    Credits: 4

    An introduction to the use of geographic information systems for dealing with map-based data across many disciplines.

  
  • ESS 3085 - Environmental Planning and Management

    Credits: 4
    Enivronmental Planning and Management is an introduction to concepts, principles, and objectives of environmental planning and management.  Students will be introduced  to an interdisciplinary and often contested set of approaches to planning and management which will be applied to the pressing ecological sustainability, resiliences, and public health challenges.  Students will develop a systematic approach to addressing environmental issues, risks and problems.
    Prerequisite(s): ESS 1050  or ESS 1060  
  
  • ESS 3100 - Environmental Justice

    Credits: 4
    This course will introduce you to environmental justice as a concept and a movement, as well as its guiding principles, theories, practices, accomplishments, and challenges. In the United States and across the globe, people of color are subjected to a disproportionately large number of health and environmental risks in their neighborhoods and on their jobs. Communities of color must contend with dirty air and drinking water, the byproducts of municipal landfills, incinerators, polluting industries, and hazardous waste facilities. We will seek to understand the societal, cultural, and institutional factors underlying environmental decision-making processes as they intersect with race, power, access, and ecological problems.
    Fulfills: D and E in LS Core
 

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